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Unit Title: Fictional Exploration – Never Let Me Go Subject/Course: English Language Arts
Grade: 9th Author Name: Tuck Northrop
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MR. NORTHROP – ENGLISH 9 UNIT PLANNING
A key aspect of my class vision is to provide texts that are engaging, thought provoking, and relevant to my students’
magnet field of study. Never Let Me Go provides the opportunity to explore issues in bioethics, social justice, human
relationships, psychology, identity, and existential philosophy. In addition, it is a present-day, multi-cultural text,
written by a Japanese born, British raised/educated author.
Another aspect of my class vision is providing the opportunity to write every day about both academic topics and
personal experience. My daily written assignments create this opportunity, and students often have the choice
between focusing on text-based analysis and personal experience/text synthesis.
Finally, the summative assessment provides ample instruction and time for students to build literary analysis skills
and use them to compose a formal analytical essay. The skills involved, including developing arguments, defining
thesis statements, and close reading for the discovery of textual evidence, are essential for success in all academic
disciplines
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